Roger B. Taney

March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864

Roger Brooke Taney (1777–1864) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the fifth chief justice of the United States from 1836 until his death in 1864. Before joining the Supreme Court, he served as U.S. attorney general and U.S. secretary of the treasury under President Andrew Jackson. His legacy is chiefly defined by the majority opinion he wrote in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which held that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories.

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